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No. 337,280. Patented Mar. 2, 1886.

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ELLA NAGLE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO LOUIS FELLHEIMER, OF SAME PLACE.

UNDERWAIST OR STRENGTHENING-CORSET FOR CHlLDRE'N.

$PECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 337,280, dated March 2,1886.

Application filed October 15, 1885. Serial No. 180,020.

T all whom it may concern.- 4

Be it known that I, ELLA NAGLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, have 5 invented new and useful Improvements in Underwaists or Strengthening-Corsets for Children, of which the following isa specification. This invention relates to underwaists or strengthening-corsets for children, but is ap- IO plicable also for older persons in cases where the body requires support.

It consists in an under-waist of proper form to go around the body, having suitable gores at the proper places, as at H, for that purpose, the ends of the underwaist being left plain, so that they can overlap each other when the underwaist exceeds the circumference of the body of the wearer. The underwaist is corded at the parts which come opposite such parts of the person as require especial support, the cords being arranged to run up and down the underwaist. The corded parts by their stiffness are adapted to support the frame of the wearer and to aid the weaker parts of the body, and to preserve the symmetry and true relations of the parts.

The under-waist is secured to the body by means of lacing-flaps, which extend from the outside of the underwaist at suitable points back of the ends of the underwaist. The lacing-flaps are corded in the direction of their length. From the lower edge of the underwaist extend two flaps or straps, which are adapted to be fastened to the loin-cloth or 3 5 diaperof the infantone at the front and the other at the back of the wearer-so as to aid in supporting the diaper and keeping it in place.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a front elevation of my improvement. Fig. 2

is a plan view showing the underwaist extended.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

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in that direction exceeds the circumference of the body. The ends B B are left plain.

The underwaist is secured around the body of the wearer by lacingflaps-O O,which spring 5 from the outside of the underwaist behind its ends B, and which in height are aboutor nearly equal to the length of the underwaist up and down. The ends of the flaps O are provided with eyelets D, to receive lacing-strings with which the underwaist is laced and secured to the body. The flaps O are corded, as shown,

so as to strengthen them, and also to give firmness to the parts of the underwaist over which they come. 6

The underwaist proper is corded at E E E from top to bottom, as shown, for thepurpose of stiffening the underwaist at the parts which come opposite or against those parts of the body of the wearer that chiefly need in ordinary cases to be braced or supported by the underwaist--as the spinal column, the sides of the body, and the front of the body. The length of the underwaist is made greater at the back and front parts than at the parts that come 7 5 under the arms, so that the underwaist may support the body of the infant at the back and front as much as possible. From the lower edge of the underwaist, both at the back and front, extend straps F F, which I arrange in 8 such a manner that they can be fastened by pins or any convenient detachable fastening to the loin-cloth or diaper in front and behind, whereby the latter is keptsnugly in place and is properly support-ed without discomfort to 8 the infant.

The advantages of my improvement will be apparent to all who have the care of infants, especially in the case of infants having a weak body or whose body is not symmetrical through accident or other cause. The lacing-flaps 0 provide the means forsecuring the underwaist in place, and the height thereof is such as to make them apply overthe whole height of the underwaist from a point about level with the 5 armpits down to a point about level with the hips, so that the body of the infant will be firmly braced and supported thereby. The flaps O are corded'in horizontal lines, as at G,

in order to stiffen and strengthen them andin- 10o crease the measure of support to the body of V the wearer.

What I claim as new, and desireto secure by center of the nnderwaist and along the plain Letters Patent, isends thereof, and flaps F, attached to and de- As a new article of manufacture, an underpending from the lower edge of the under- Waist orstrengthening corsetfor children, conwaist, substantially as described. 15

5 sisting of a gored body, A, having plain ends In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my B B, the free lacing-flaps O 0, having eyelets hand and seal in the presence of two subsoriband secured to the upper part of said body reing Witnesses.

mote from the outer edges of the latter and ELLA NAGLE. [L. 5.] corded in the direction of their length, the XVitnesses: 1o lacing-cords for the eyelets, aseries of stiffen- W. I-IAUFF,

ing-cords, E E E, extending vertically along the E. F. KASTENHUBER. 

